#elves

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#age #atomic #being #beings #greatness

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#crucify #fear #future #many #ourselves

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves. ↗

— Zhao Ziyang

#be the first #communists #concerned #country #enjoy

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#become #men #nothing #place #themselves

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedians #comfort #comfort zone #find #rest

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#determined #give #meanings #ourselves #situations

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#ourselves #part #pay